i decided that it’s probably a good idea to be able to see what apps you have open, so i implemented a little window list in the status bar. it’s pretty rudimentary - it just makes an element for each open window and updates any time a window is added or removed. eventually i’ll get around to adding window logos and context menus that let you close and minimise windows from the taskbar but that’s a bit advanced for the minute.
i decided i wanted to make tundra look a bit like serenityOS, so i modified the window header to include the distinctive red gradient. i also added a proper focusing system which required a decent rewrite of a portion of caribou (the wm).
also, i worked on centralising the wm. previously, windows handled their own focusing and closing but since i’ve discovered customevents windows now request this behaviour from the wm. finally, windows now auto-focus when you open them!
after much tedious work i added 2 other apps: a notes app that currently has a small TODO list and a changelog; and an image viewer that shows off a random image i’ve taken.
i’ve also prettied the whole thing up a little bit by changing the font from [default] to Cozette, a nice cozy bitmap-ish font.
finally, i added an app drawer so you can open all the (3) apps available in v0.1.0! i’m really looking forward to adding tons of new features and making it look super awesome!
windows and apps are now instanced and defined purely in their own classes in javascript instead of being predefined in HTML and shown / hidden. i know it’s not strictly part of the mission for WebOS 1 but it makes me feel a bit better about myself AND it’ll make things a whole lot easier for me down the line. since apps are instanced, i can have as many welcomes as i want !
i started working on the first iteration of caribou - tundra’s window manager (aka a window class and a list of open windows). so far, windows can be dragged around using some very janky freestyled code, and can also be closed (one of the can even be opened again !). it’s currently looking quite… webby, so next i’ll probably work on making it look a bit more personal (maybe a bit like my personal homepage??)
building my own OS has been a dream of mine for a long, long time but i’ve never actually been able to make one before (because i know next to nothing about low-level programming). so imagine my reaction when i saw that i could get 50 stardust for making one? well, one small catch. it had to be a web-based OS. wait, is that really a catch though? its like a thousand times easier, and has just enough instant gratification for my short-form content-fried dopamine-addicted brain. so here we are. so far, tundra has a window and a status bar, and thats about it (also, the wallpaper is a photo i took down at the beach today !). i’m really looking forward to adding a ton more features to tundra in the future.
I added a little fortune teller in the bottom right window, filled with a bunch of generic fortunes that refreshes each time you reload the page.
Also, I remembered that devices other than my MacBook exist so I made the website responsive. On screens less than 1050px (so most phones and tablets) the status bar and side windows disappear, leaving more room for the main content, and on screens less than 295px (where the main content’s UI actually breaks), a warning message pops up. Hopefully this looks good on most devices.
I think this is probably where I’ll leave the site for now, it serves well enough as a personal portfolio (and looks pretty good too!)
What’s a Linux rice without Neofetch?
No prizes for guessing what I added. In one of the windows, I put a neofetch-inspired “system info” log, featuring an ASCII-art version of my logo (I had to go through like 5 different websites to find one that would spit out HTML that actually worked in my code). Complete with CPU and GPU data based on your browser, randomised packages, and uptime that counts the number of seconds since you loaded the site.
Why should I have to design my own website FROM SCRATCH when I can just make it look like a generic Arch Linux rice? Well, that’s what I’m doing to scratch the itch that comes with not being able to install Linux on my machine. So far the website has a status bar and a few windows, and next I’m going to add a bit of content to them.
I set up a little webpage with a stopwatch in the center, which you can start and stop with the spacebar. I’ll work on adding time logging and average calculation in the next devlog
